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List of Billy Graham's crusades

List of Billy Graham's crusades

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Billy Graham's crusades were evangelistic campaigns conducted by Billy Graham between 1947 and 2005.

Graham at his crusade (1966).

History

The first Billy Graham evangelistic campaign, held September 13–21, 1947, in the Civic Auditorium in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was attended by 6,000 people. He would rent a large venue, such as a stadium, park, or street.[1] As the sessions became larger, he arranged a group of up to 5,000 people to sing in a choir. He would preach the gospel and invite people to come forward to ask Jesus "to be their savior" and pray together. The inquirers were often given a copy of the Gospel of John or a Bible study booklet. In Durban, South Africa, in 1973, the crowd of some 100,000 was the first large mixed-race event in apartheid South Africa.[2] In Moscow, in 1992, one-quarter of the 155,000 people in Graham's audience went forward at his call.[3]

In 1995, during the Global Mission event, he preached a sermon at Estadio Hiram Bithorn in San Juan in Puerto Rico which was transmitted by satellite in 185 countries and translated into 116 languages. [4]

During his crusades, Billy Graham frequently used the altar call song "Just As I Am".[5]

Countries in which Billy Graham preached are colored in blue.

Over 58 years, Billy Graham reached more than 210 million people (face to face and by satellite feeds).[6] The New York Crusade of 1957 - the longest of Graham's evangelistic crusades took place in Madison Square Garden, which lasted 16 weeks.[7] The largest audience in the history of Graham's ministry assembled at Yoido Plaza in Seoul in South Korea in 1973 (1.1 million people).[8][9]

Graham's revival meetings were most commonly called "crusades", and were billed as such for decades, but Graham himself began calling them "missions" after the September 11 attacks due to a potentially offensive connotation of the word crusade among Muslims.[10]

Concluding his last crusade in 2005 in New York, Graham had preached during 417 crusades, including 226 in the United States and 195 worldwide in over 50 countries, predominantly in Christendom.[11][12]

Chronological list

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    CBN, Remembering the Billy Graham Crusades That Led People to Jesus, cbn.com, USA, February 24, 2018
  2. [2]
    Stanley, Brian (March 2, 2018). "Billy Graham (1918–2018): Prophet of World Christianity?". Centre for the Study of World Christianity. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  3. [3]
    Gibbs, Nancy; Ostling, Richard N. (1993-11-15). "God's Billy Pulpit". Time. Archived from the original on 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
  4. [4]
    Andrew S. Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, Grant Wacker, Billy Graham: American Pilgrim, Oxford University Press, UK, 2017, p. 104
  5. [5]
    "'Just As I Am' was Billy Graham's signature hymn". Religion News Service. 2018-02-21. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  6. [6]
    Long, Michael G. (2008). The legacy of Billy Graham: critical reflections on America's greatest evangelist. Westminster: John Knox Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780664236564.
  7. [7]
    Balbier, Uta Andrea (Spring 2009). "Billy Graham's Crusades in the 1950s: Neo-Evangelicalism Between Civil Religion, Media, and Consumerism". Bulletin of the GHI. 44. German Historical Institute.
  8. [8]
    "Prophecy and Politics". Christianity Today. March 2006. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  9. [9]
    "War and Peace in Korea". CCEL. Archived from the original on 2012-04-13. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  10. [10]
    Curry, Matt (2002-10-18). "Billy Graham Is Back". cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2016-12-08. 'Following September 11th, there was increased consciousness of other faiths in the U.S. that would find the term crusade offensive', Graham spokeswoman Melany Ethridge told The Associated Press in 2002
  11. [11]
    Grossman, Cathy Lynn. "Billy Graham reached millions through his crusades. Here's how he did it". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  12. [12]
    Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADES, billygraham.org, retrieved June 5, 2023
  13. [13]
    "Announcing the Billy Graham Revival". Charlotte's Own. November 9–23, 1947.
  14. [14]
    Mel Larson (1950). "TASTING REVIVAL — at Los Angeles". Revival In Our Time: The Story of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Campaigns including Six of his Sermons. Van Kampen Press. pp. 11–27.
  15. [15]
    "1952 Greater Washington Evangelistic Crusade - Film". wheaton.edu. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  16. [16]
    "The Archives Bulletin Board". wheaton.edu. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  17. [17]
    "The Coliseum Sermons From Billy Graham's 1958 Charlotte Evangelistic Meetings". Wheaton College. Billy Graham Center Archives. 1958.
  18. [18]
    Edward Mc Carthy (October 9, 1960). "Graham's Sermon Causes Gang Leaders To Plan To Attend Church". The Gadsden Times. Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  19. [19]
    Bozeman, Barry (May 30, 2010). "Protest & Activism at UT - 40 YEARS ON". Knoxville 22 blog. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  20. [20]
    Michał Stankiewicz (1979). Billy Graham w Polsce. Warszawa: Słowo Prawdy.

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